Staff Developers get an overview of the ThinkQuest process,
pedagogy, goals and implementation style. They review tutorials,
support materials and discuss how to best support students,
teachers and schools.
Option A: 2/23/2010
Option B: 4/7/2010
1.1
Teachers bring their prep schedules
Select a class to track for student surveys
Consent Forms: Teachers and students
Evaluation Information
Introduction
• Introductions, History and Mission of ThinkQuest
• Connecting ThinkQuest to Standards and Professional
Goals
• Review Manual, Calendar & Goals: Be successful in your
1st Year
• Evaluate past sites with Rubric
o Score sites
o Write constructive criticism on projects
o How to bring this assignment to the students.
• Contest vs. Curriculum: matching goals through
Standards
o Look at Reading & Writing ELA Standards
o Choose one Standard for respective grade and
write how a ThinkQuest project will support it.
• Discuss Self-Assessment Strategies
Project Based Learning
• Engaging Learning through Constructivism
• Read articles and discuss philosophies and practices.
• Create a project-based lesson to introduce students to
THINKQUEST.
o Review hand-out sheets to guide student
discussion on topics that interest them in and out
of the classroom.
• Managing the Project: tips, tools and support
• Exploring Engaging Topic Ideas
Guiding Partner Approach to Learning
• Discuss teams, the role of teacher as coach
• How to disseminate technical information through
students
• How to explore new technologies
• Student as teacher
• Teacher as student
Topics & Teams
• How to divide classroom into functioning teams
• Forming Successful Team
o Review team-building activities and how students
can discuss responsibilities, writing contracts with
their teammates and setting written goals for
themselves.
o Discuss roles and delegating responsibilities
o Create team check-in sheets
• Brainstorming topic ideas
o Participate in a brain-storming activity that
explores topics both in and out of the curriculum
o Answer Guiding Questions to flesh out topic ideas
• How to develop ideas that are manageable, engaging and
support the curriculum
Dreamweaver Part 1
• Introduce Dreamweaver, its interface and tools.
• Create a 3-page website with images, links and tables.
Teaching the Internetʼs Mysteries
• De-mystify how sites go from computer to server to
browser and how to troubleshoot problems
• Create a lesson to teach these principles to students
• Web design dictionary: what all those terms really mean
• Have students create computer flash cards or posters
• Preparing and organizing the technology and process
Topics & Starting Research
• What makes it a ʻgoodʼ idea?
o Dissect topic and find itʼs ʻinterestingʼ elements
• Making fun topics educational
o What can be taught through (baseball, music,
fashion, etc)?
o Have students find educational elements in their outside interests
• Making educational topics fun
o What are compelling topics within the curriculum?
o Have students discuss areas theyʼd like to know more about Good Ideas that will Scaffold Research
• How to develop questions for research
o Write questions to find answers to at the library or on-line resources
o Have students share their answers with
teammates and discuss possible directions to
steer their topic
o Develop a new set of questions to divide amongst team Copyright, plagiarism, permissions and citations
Idea Mapping & Project Management
• Breaking out the topic into sections
o Use graphic outlining method to organize
information into sections
• Using Inspiration to organize ideas
o Reproduce outline on computer to save and
expand upon
• Turning those sections into web pages
Taking the website from concept through completion
• Creating a timeline
o Have students set their own production deadlines
• Setting up organizational tools
Dreamweaver 2
• Designing with Tables
• Using graph paper to ʻdesignʼ your site
• Create a ʻlookʼ for their site on paper
• Open 'template.html' in Dreamweaver
• Insert buttons & title graphic
• Create links
• Create multiple pages using "Save As..."
Teachers to bring in all student products for revision
Polishing & Uploading
• Have students proofread and edit each otherʼs sites
• Upload & Test pages, images, etc.
Tech Support
• How to troubleshoot and when to ask for help
Sharing Our Success
• Reflection
o Students write about their experience, frustrations, process, what theyʼve learned, how theyʼve grown and what they contributed to their site
Evaluating the Product, the Process & the Competition
• Using the Judging Rubric and Evaluation Criteria
o Students ʻjudgeʼ each otherʼs sites
• Peer Review
o Students give critiques to other classmatesʼ
projects
o Students review how well their own team worked
together
• Celebration & Recognition
To discuss if additional advanced session are needed.
Option A: Afterschool -
10 Sessions
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Option B:
Saturday -
5 Sessions
9:00 am - 2:00 pm
pedagogy, goals and implementation style. They review tutorials,
support materials and discuss how to best support students,
teachers and schools.
Option B: 4/7/2010
• Introductions, History and Mission of ThinkQuest
• Connecting ThinkQuest to Standards and Professional
Goals
• Review Manual, Calendar & Goals: Be successful in your
1st Year
• Evaluate past sites with Rubric
o Score sites
o Write constructive criticism on projects
o How to bring this assignment to the students.
• Contest vs. Curriculum: matching goals through
Standards
o Look at Reading & Writing ELA Standards
o Choose one Standard for respective grade and
write how a ThinkQuest project will support it.
• Discuss Self-Assessment Strategies
ThinkQuest International Award Winners
TQNYC 2009 Award Winners
Option B: 4/7/2010
• Engaging Learning through Constructivism
• Read articles and discuss philosophies and practices.
• Create a project-based lesson to introduce students to
THINKQUEST.
o Review hand-out sheets to guide student
discussion on topics that interest them in and out
of the classroom.
• Managing the Project: tips, tools and support
• Exploring Engaging Topic Ideas
Guiding Partner Approach to Learning
• Discuss teams, the role of teacher as coach
• How to disseminate technical information through
students
• How to explore new technologies
• Student as teacher
• Teacher as student
3/9/2010
Option B: 4/24/2010
Teachers to complete topic survey
• How to divide classroom into functioning teams
• Forming Successful Team
o Review team-building activities and how students
can discuss responsibilities, writing contracts with
their teammates and setting written goals for
themselves.
o Discuss roles and delegating responsibilities
o Create team check-in sheets
• Brainstorming topic ideas
o Participate in a brain-storming activity that
explores topics both in and out of the curriculum
o Answer Guiding Questions to flesh out topic ideas
• How to develop ideas that are manageable, engaging and
support the curriculum
3/11/2010
Option B: 4/24/2010
• Introduce Dreamweaver, its interface and tools.
• Create a 3-page website with images, links and tables.
Teaching the Internetʼs Mysteries
• De-mystify how sites go from computer to server to
browser and how to troubleshoot problems
• Create a lesson to teach these principles to students
• Web design dictionary: what all those terms really mean
• Have students create computer flash cards or posters
• Preparing and organizing the technology and process
4/13/201
Option B:
5/8/2010
Teachers finalizing topics
Site Map for Final Project
Topics & Starting Research
• What makes it a ʻgoodʼ idea?
o Dissect topic and find itʼs ʻinterestingʼ elements
• Making fun topics educational
o What can be taught through (baseball, music,
fashion, etc)?
o Have students find educational elements in their outside interests
• Making educational topics fun
o What are compelling topics within the curriculum?
o Have students discuss areas theyʼd like to know more about Good Ideas that will Scaffold Research
• How to develop questions for research
o Write questions to find answers to at the library or on-line resources
o Have students share their answers with
teammates and discuss possible directions to
steer their topic
o Develop a new set of questions to divide amongst team
Copyright, plagiarism, permissions and citations
Mickie's PortaPortal site
Guest access: mightyproductions
4/15/2010
Option B: 5/8//2010
• Breaking out the topic into sections
o Use graphic outlining method to organize
information into sections
• Using Inspiration to organize ideas
o Reproduce outline on computer to save and
expand upon
• Turning those sections into web pages
Taking the website from concept through completion
• Creating a timeline
o Have students set their own production deadlines
• Setting up organizational tools
See example of the template we will be using (not a complete website)
5/11/2010
Option B: 5/22/2010
• Introduction to the tools & interface
• Basic image creation
• Adding effects
• Create a button graphic
• Create title graphic
5/13/2010
Option B: 5/22/2010
• Designing with Tables
• Using graph paper to ʻdesignʼ your site
• Create a ʻlookʼ for their site on paper
• Open 'template.html' in Dreamweaver
• Insert buttons & title graphic
• Create links
• Create multiple pages using "Save As..."
5/18/2010
Option B:
6/5/2010
• Create more buttons
• Create title graphic
• Resize photographs
• Insert buttons and images into Dreamweaver
• Create links
• Create multiple pages from template page
<embed src="aha.mp3" autostart="false" loop="false" width="300" height="42" controller="true"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed>
5/20/2010
Option B:
6/5/2010
Teachers to bring in all student products for revision
• Have students proofread and edit each otherʼs sites
• Upload & Test pages, images, etc.
Tech Support
• How to troubleshoot and when to ask for help
Sharing Our Success
• Reflection
o Students write about their experience, frustrations, process, what theyʼve learned, how theyʼve grown and what they contributed to their site
Evaluating the Product, the Process & the Competition
• Using the Judging Rubric and Evaluation Criteria
o Students ʻjudgeʼ each otherʼs sites
• Peer Review
o Students give critiques to other classmatesʼ
projects
o Students review how well their own team worked
together
• Celebration & Recognition
To discuss if additional advanced session are needed.